Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>     Okay, now you risk getting on my bad side :)  I know what PPID
> stands for...now you tell me which of these processes to SIGHUP:
> 
>     root 18942 22213  0 13:22:03 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
>     root 18946 22213  0 13:22:03 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

2 open connections.

>     root 18948     1  0 13:22:04 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

a local delivery spawned by an open connection that closed and left the
local delivery to finish, thus orphaning it to init (PID1)

>     root 22213     1  0   Oct 26 ?        1:40 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

The listener.

>     And ya, I know, the one with the older date...the point is that
> you can't really automate this, except to do:

You're trying to kill the listener?

You do know you can use truss and lsof to figure this out as well right?

Or you could do:
kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

Also, check out what the BSD style ps shows under Solaris (/usr/ucb/ps).

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